American Poetry
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BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing [Paperback]
Seth Abramson (Editor); Charles Bernstein (Editor); Tracie Morris (Editor); Jesse Damiani (Editor)
£14.95ISBN: 9780819576743
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Best American Experimental Writing
BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing is the third volume of this annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year’s volume, guest-edited by Charles Bernstein and Traci... .... Learn More -
The Work-Shy [Hardback]
Blunt Research Group (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819576781
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The Work-Shy documents a secret network of overlooked communities that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages offer direct testimony from the first youth prison in California (the Whittier State School) and from asylums... .... Learn More -
Archeophonics [Hardback]
Peter Gizzi (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819576804
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes... .... Learn More -
Common Sense [Paperback]
Ted Greenwald (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780819576422
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
First published in 1979, Common Sense evinces a spare street-wise style rooted in the vernacular of the city. Now something of a cult classic, the book is recognized as an understated masterpiece, pushing at the edges of spoken word. This is the l... .... Learn More -
The Age of Reasons: Uncollected Poems 1969–1982 [Paperback]
Ted Greenwald (Author); Miles Champion (Editor)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819576262
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
This collection of Ted Greenwald’s poetry, edited by Miles Champion, is a sampler of some of Greenwald’s most breathtaking work. A New York poet with close ties to the New York School and the Language poets, Greenwald has written daily since the e... .... Learn More -
Favor of Crows [Paperback]
Gerald Vizenor (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819575821
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Favor of Crows is a collection of new and previously published original haiku poems over the past forty years. Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry. In the introductory essay the author compares the imagistic poise ... .... Learn More -
Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker [Hardback]
Yusef Komunyakaa (Author); Miriam Zolin (Other); Christopher Williams (Other); Sascha Feinstein (Other); Sandy Evans (Other)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819574299
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is well known for his jazz poetry, and this book is the first to bring together the verve and vitality of his oeuvre. The centerpiece of this volume is the libretto "Testimony." Paying homage to Charlie... .... Learn More -
Garnet Poems [Hardback]
Dennis Barone (Editor); Dick Allen (Other)
£21.50ISBN: 9780819573094
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Connecticut may be a small state, but it is large indeed in its contribution to the nation's literature. Garnet Poems features forty-two poets whose work has a strong connection to Connecticut. The first major anthology of Connecticut poetry to ap... .... Learn More -
The new black [Paperback]
Evie Shockley (Author)
£11.95ISBN: 9780819572875
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary mome... .... Learn More -
The new black [Hardback]
Evie Shockley (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819571403
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary mome... .... Learn More
